Election info falls short for foreign voters
As thousands of Cypriots find themselves ready to go to the polls tomorrow EU-resident voters in Paphos say they still don’t know where to go or what to do.
” I used to support the socialists, and then last time I voted left. This time I will vote Green and I hope my wife will too. The politicians in this country are awful, but I can see the Greens are fighting every day for the good of the citizens.” Chris Georgiou, Paphos.
CYPRIOT and EU residents go to the polls tomorrow to elect six candidates from a choice of forty seven that will serve as representatives of the island in the European Parliament for the next five years.
CYPRIOT MEP candidates fired off their finals shots yesterday as campaigning came to an official end at midnight.
AYIA NAPA police are looking for a group of men in connection with a violent assault on a British tourist.
The 23-year-old man was found beaten, semi-conscious and bruised near Ayia Napa on Wednesday night.
He is continuing to receive medical treatment at Nicosia General Hospital.
A 45-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday in court in connection with his alleged assault of a nine-month-old baby boy.
The baby suffered a fracture to his left temple and a bruise above his right eyebrow on his forehead and had to be hospitalised for observation for five days.
CYPRUS AIRWAYS (CY)is reducing capacity for 2009 by 57,000 seats due to the global crisis, Executive Chairman Kikis Lazarides said yesterday.
A BULGARIAN divorcee, who shares joint custody with her ex-husband, was yesterday fined €200 for violating a court order to return her six-year-old daughter to Nicosia from Paphos so that the child could go back to school.
The woman, who appeared in court in Nicosia, pleaded guilty to contempt of court.
NO ONE said it would be easy but UN Special Envoy Alexander Downer might just wish someone had told him it would be this hard after spending the last few days rejecting a convoy of explosive “comments” attributed to him by the media.
FIREFIGHTERS managed to contain a blaze that broke out yesterday next to the villages of Souni and Zanatzia in the nick of time before the flames engulfed residents’ homes.
The fire, which started shortly after noon, incinerated about a square kilometre of the lush pinewooded forest and wild shrubs.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
